, Venn: College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1883 Born: Died: 1945 Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 21, 1883. [4th] s. of the Ven. John Pilkington (1841) [Archdeacon of Bristol], of 3, Great George Street, Bristol. B. [Sept. 1], 1865, in London. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1883; B.A. 1886; M.A. 1890; D.D. 1914. Ord. deacon (Gloucester and Bristol) 1887; priest, 1888; C. of Tewkesbury, 1887-9. Missionary (S.P.G.) at Peking, 1889-1914. Bishop of North China, 1914-40. A missionary in Peking during the siege at the time of the Boxer rebellion, when `his courage and judgment led Sir Claude Macdonald to give him special responsibilities.' Captured in 1933 (during one of his diocesan journeys) by Chinese bandits `but his Chinese servant persuaded the bandits to release him.' During the Japanese occupation in the second World War was permitted `comparative freedom within a confined area. Chinese Order for Famine Relief, 1918-19. Author, China. Died July 2, 1945, at Shanghai. Brother of Edward J. (1879). (Winchester Coll. Reg.; Crockford; Who's Who; The Times, July 23 and 24, 1945.)